BROCKTON – Much like a loss the day before, the Silver Lake baseball team fell to Lincoln-Sudbury, 11-4, Monday night at Campanelli Stadium because of missed opportunities at the plate and some uncharacteristic defensive lapses.

The loss eliminated the Lakers (20-5) from the Super 8, but took nothing away from an historic season that saw Silver Lake win a share of its third straight Patriot League Keenan Division title and earn the No. 4 seed in the inaugural MIAA Division 1A tournament.

“The Super 8 (loss) really doesn’t take away anything that we’ve accomplished,” coach Kenny Tocci said. “We’ve moved forward each and every year, but each and every year we play tough teams and in the tournament that’s no different, and you can’t win with only four hits.”

Silver Lake had some chances to score, though, drawing five walks and getting hit by two pitches.

“It doesn’t matter what kind of baseball is going on, you can’t win just four hits,” said Tocci. “We had some chances to get some runs and it didn’t work our way today.”

No. 6 Lincoln-Sudbury (20-5) advances to play No. 5 Braintree (19-4) in another elimination game Thursday at Campanelli Stadium. As of Monday night the MIAA had not announced the start time.

Silver Lake fell behind in the top of second when L-S scored on an infield single. The Warriors added another run in the third, three more in the fifth and broke it open with three more in the eighth. Three runs in the ninth finished the job.

Silver Lake was paced offensively by Evan McSherry, who went 2 for 3 with a walk and a run scored. Josh O’Neill, Matt Cauchon and Tanner Bouchard all scored in the loss.

“It’s a great accomplishment,” Tocci said of making the first-ever Super 8 field. “At one point these kids are going to look back in their lives and say ‘We were in the inaugural Super 8.’ It’s something that they’ll be able to look at a T-shirt or sweatshirt they get and just enjoy it. They’ll be able to tell their grandkids someday that they played in inaugural Super 8.”